Today's News

Anyone who has driven around Springfield lately knows that road construction season is in high gear. At the Friday’s meeting of the Washington County Fiscal Court, members of District 4 of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet updated the county on some of the projects currently under way.

Approximately 1,000 4-H members from across the state converged on Frankfort for 4-H Capitol Experience day last week. The day gave 4-H members a chance to not only tour the Capitol but also to visit with their legislators and to see state government in action.

Adam Stevenson is accustomed to being around winning college volleyball programs. And the Illinois native plans to bring that winning attitude to St. Catharine College. SCC athletic director Mike Doig announced recently that Stevenson will immediately start as the new head coach as he prepares for the Patriots’ 2010 season.

Tim Wolz is not unfamiliar with soccer in the Mid-South Conference. For eight years he coached soccer at the University of the Cumberlands, where he was named Conference Coach of the Year in 2002. Now Wolz will reacquaint himself with the Mid-South Conference as he was recently named as the coach of the men’s team at St. Catharine College. Paul Patton has coached both the men and women at SCC for the last four years and will remain as the women’s coach.

Since Abner Doubleday threw out the first pitch, baseball experts have held that the key to successful seasons are centered on good pitching and defense. And while most will still subscribe to that philosophy, St. Catharine College head coach Luther Bramblett sees another component that is fairly important.

“We have had solid pitching and have played good defense all season, but now we are starting to hit the ball,” said Bramblett. “We are executing on offense and doing the little things offensively that win ballgames.”

24“Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.”

Matthew 7: 24-25,

Holy Bible, NIV

If anything has ever been built on a solid foundation, it would be Camp Calvary, a Washington County church camp built firmly on the word of God.

Dozens of local fourth and fifth graders spent the better part of Saturday at North Washington Elementary School taking part in B.L.A.S.T., an event sponsored by the Washington County Heartland Youth Coalition that replaces Safe Night.